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Topic Review (Newest First)

11-05-2014 01:04 PM

FreeFocus

Only took me an hour to read through all of this. and WOW. From where it started to where it ended, speechless.

You going to make it down to the meet on November 15, or are in Illinois I think it is? Kinda wanted to see the car in person.

PM me the location of all the focus parts? or is it TOP SECRET!!! lol

Nice thread, good read too.

10-13-2014 12:34 PM

djwrg04

Went more or less Rally status with Anya. I'm living in Illinois now and we already had a lil bit of snow last week and supposedly Carbondale gets close to a foot and a half of snow on occasion.

I went with stock springs up front and the SVT front sway bar. I used a 1" metal spacer on both struts between the strut bearing and spring to stiffen the ride a little bit and keep the car up higher than stock.

Out back I stuck with the SVT rear springs and SVT sway bar. All I did was just raised my perches to reach higher than stock and installed some polyurethane rear spring isolators. I might throw on my mazda 30mm rear sway bar to stiffen the ride out back but I need to get used to how she handles first.

Found my front camber issue... the strut top nut was loose and the threads riding on the plate wore it inward.

And now for the light bar:

Here's with the light off, normal focus lights on.

Here's with the light bar:

08-27-2014 11:19 AM

djwrg04

We've been using my car lately for Labs in my Automotive Technology courses.

Good times.

08-13-2014 11:03 AM

djwrg04

-New Coil Pack Bracket-

Got new wires from Karl at Massive, while I was at FocusFest. They ended up being stretched too much for my liking so I figured there was no better time than now to make a coil pack bracket.

I was originally going to use just a Zetec bracket I had sitting around, but the holes didn't line up and it was too long.

Ended up using some scrap aluminum my dad had laying around.

Garage Fab Go!!!!

After

Before

Overall, I like the new location much better and I feel like it cleans up the look of the engine bay a bit. If I get a chance, I'd love to try and mount an SVT coil pack cover to clean things up a bit.

There were only two issues I ran into.
1. I had to extend the coil pack wiring by about 2 inches as the connector now faces the battery.
2. It was confusing as hell at first when putting the new plug wires on since none of the wiring diagrams I found online showed where the connector was on the coil pack and the coil pack was oriented differently.

-Radiator cover-

I have a nice set of hood pins I've been wanting to use for some time now, but never got around to actually mounting them.

Well I had mounted them several weeks ago but they prevented me from using my radiator cover.

I figured I'd fab something up to cover the area seeing as the radiator cover is supposed to direct airflow into the radiator to maximize cooling system performance and all that good stuff.

I found some diamond plate laying around the garage and thought it would look great if I gave it a brushed aluminum finish.

You can see the difference between the original (albeit faded) finish and the brushed aluminum(right) I did with a stainless steel brush.

Clear coated to keep it fresh.

It fits real good and looks better than having an open gap there.

07-15-2014 04:00 PM

djwrg04

Been stupid busy lately and now that I've got some real downtime I figured I ought to get back into the game!

I just got back from my first vacation without patents with my fiance. We went to Kentucky Dam Village and took Anya.

Anya appears in the majority of our pictures like this as if she's the disgruntled ex-girlfriend/3rd wheel.

This was taken while Google Maps led us through roughly 21 miles of gravel roads and off road trails when looking for a gas station.

Drying off shoes the quick way!

Overall the trip was really nice and we had tons of fun. Poor Anya got the crud beat out of her on the crap roads and gravel trails leaving her absolutely covered in gravel dust.

Today I woke up and came outside to get the mail and was pleasantly surprised with a beautiful sunny day @ 74* and real low humidity.

So what better to do than clean off the car!!

And all that's just from washing. I worked on that in sections from about noon to 4.

That's all for now, If I find time tonight I'll update with the final results after wax and clay bar! [emoji41]

05-02-2014 07:28 PM

djwrg04

The AMD is for crypto-curency mining. The Nvidia GTX780 is for gaming.

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05-02-2014 06:39 PM

qweesy

man another AMD turd?

05-02-2014 11:29 AM

benoit230

that display with the time and temps is freaking awesome.

05-02-2014 09:37 AM

djwrg04

Not exactly Focus related, but its something I'm pretty proud of.

I finally got off my butt and installed my GPU water cooling parts I've been sitting on for a week or two. It all went good with the help of my buddy Mark except for the part where the $130 water block for my AMD 7950 didn't fit...

I couldn't really go back since I spent so much time braiding and hiding the wires that I said screw it and hooked the resivor/pump up to my radiator to make sure everything worked.

Here's the pics (pardon the messy dorm room!)

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04-11-2014 05:03 PM

Black05

Awesome build

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